Water – Oct 10
Water for millions at risk as glaciers melt
Monbiot: The freshwater boom is over
$3 water purifier could save lives
Food & Water
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 29
Billy goat not gruff about his responsibilities
Urban farming: city pickers
A summer spent killing—and eating—Seattle’s small game
A reflection on cities of the future
We will be lucky if we can make the transition from our current circumstances to a future of re-sized, re-scaled cities and a reactivated productive rural landscape outside them, with a hierarchy of hamlets, villages, and towns in between, and some ability to conduct commerce and manufacturing.
Permablitzing the suburbs
A permablitz is a permaculture-inspired backyard makeover where people come together to share knowledge and skills about organic food production in urban gardens while building community and having fun.
Backyard Aquaponics
Aquaponics is a system of integrated fish tanks and hydroponic vegetable beds, which may have a lot to offer for high intensity urban food production.
Transition Town Totnes
Totnes is the UK’s first town exploring issues of how to prepare for peak oil. TTT is a community-led initiative which is working towards the creation of an Energy Descent Action Plan for the town.
Food & agriculture – Sept 25
Spinach, feedlots and knowing the backstory
Don’t cry to them, Argentina
Gateses’ approach to African hunger is bound to fail
Food & agriculture – Sept 19
Local farms, local food
A radical, but old, idea: Local food system for Maine
Organic Farms Make Healthy Plants Make Healthy People
Farmlet.co.nz
A visit to an Apple Orchard
Social Fertilizer: The big growth potential of urban agriculture
Community gardens are primarily hobbies here in Vancouver, but internationally they are known for their ability to feed entire cities.
Food & agriculture – Sept 18
Sustainable agriculture in CSIRO newsletter
African agriculture: seeds of hope
Study finds chemicals in biosolids
How to keep fires down in California scrub- chew it
Biofuels – Sept 17
From wheat to corn
Could sugar cane save the planet?
Addressing Proposition 87 criticisms (California)
Fun with emergency preparedness
My emergency planning strategies starts a journey that ends in the garden.
